The Wrong Box
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The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. It was made by Salamander Film Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures.[1][2]
The Wrong Box | |
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Directed by | Bryan Forbes |
Written by | Larry Gelbart Burt Shevelove |
Based on | The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne |
Produced by | Bryan Forbes Jack Rix Larry Gelbart Burt Shevelove |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Gerry Turpin |
Edited by | Alan Osbiston |
Music by | John Barry |
Production company | Salamander Film Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The cast includes a number of Britain's leading actors and comic actors of the time, including John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Nanette Newman, Wilfrid Lawson, Cicely Courtneidge, and Tony Hancock. Also included are actors who later became more well-known, including John Le Mesurier, John Junkin, Leonard Rossiter, Nicholas Parsons, Jeremy Lloyd, Graham Stark, Thorley Walters, Norman Rossington, David Lodge, Juliet Mills, and Norman Bird. The Temperance Seven appear as themselves.[3][1]